Rona Limsy asked: If the mother cat is still in the home and she is already
litter trained, then
litter training her
kittens is a natural process. Her
kittens will simply follow what she does. However, ultimately, each cat should have its own
litter tray or else it may create a host of other
litter tray problems for you!
For most
kitten owners, the mother cat is not in the home if the
kitten was orphaned or purchased. But this is not a problem. It is easy to
litter train a cat when it’s still a little
kitten.
Cats are creatures of habit and it may not be as easy to
litter train once they have become used to their favorite
toilet spots.
The key to
litter training a
kitten is to let it get used to the
litter tray as soon as possible. You will need to manually place your
kitten onto the tray initially, as it is neither used to it nor is it able to climb over the edge to get in.
Most
kittens would defecate soon after waking up and after a meal. You could place your
kitten in the
litter tray during these times and after a few weeks, your
kitten would get used to the routine and it would become a habit.
Just be sure to place the
litter tray a reasonable distance away
from where the
kitten is fed and where it sleeps.
Cats and
kittens are fastidious creatures and do not
like to do their
toilet near where they eat and sleep.
When a
kitten is still very young, it will not be able to “cover up” very well after its
toilet, as most adult
cats are capable of. But you don’t have to worry about this. Once they are about 1 to 2 months old, they will instinctively know how to cover up their ****.
In the wild or in the garden,
cats will scoop soil and earth to cover but in the home, if you provide commercial cat
litter, they will naturally scoop the
litter to cover up the ****. You will notice, even if you
only provide a newspaper for their soiling, your
kitten will still scoop at the newspaper in an instinctive act to cover up their ****.
Although you can expect to pick up **** after your
kitten in the first few weeks,
litter training a
kitten is relatively easy and can be 100% trouble-free once it gets used to the routine of using the
litter tray.
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